The certificate says l’m now recognized as a MCTS – Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance. The exam is the MCTS 70-432. Next goal is the 70-450 which has no study book in print, and the only material l can find so far is the CBT-NUGGETS training video on Exam 70-450 which is very good.

On a new instalaltion of SQL Server 2008, running on Windows Server 2008, l cannot connect to SSIS from SSMS (Sql server management console) 2008 running on a client workstation. I can connect from the local server end.
I tried adding the users Group to the permissions option on Component Services/MsdtsServer100 as suggested by many sites since this problem is common also in SSIS/Sql Server 2005. This didnt work.
Solution was to add the user group to the Windows Server Distributed COM Users group.
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